*Cheese quality*

In order to prevent further natural damage in the territory of one of the successor states of Yugoslavia, now called Northern Macedonia, goat farming was banned in 1947, with catastrophic consequences for the number of goats and the number of people living on this species. Overgrazing was blamed on the goat and not the fault of the people who kept it. This fundamentally wrong approach was discarded from 1989, when goat farming was re-authorized in the country. Since then, in addition to the development of remaining local breeds, the populations of the most important dairy breeds in the world (Alpine and Saanen) have developed in the country, as well as crossbred herds of local Balkan goats and imported goats.

As in many regions of the world, the main reason for keeping goats in this country is milk production, and the utilization of the resulting reproduction for meat plays a smaller role in the income of individual goat farms. The properties and values of the three main types of goat cheese developed in the country are evaluated by the authors in this *seventh chapter*.
